Unalterable Quotes
61 quotes by 57 authors
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Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable…
— Albert Einstein
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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into…
— Edith Wharton
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An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world…
— Michel Houellebecq
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And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of…
— George Sterling
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So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much…
— George Orwell
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It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning…
— Jim Butcher
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Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as…
— George Eliot
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There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
— Henry David Thoreau
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If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is…
— Marianne Williamson
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Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results…
— H.G. Wells
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The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they…
— Karl Popper
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I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges…
— Alex Tabarrok
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Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
— Therese Fowler
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Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.
— John Pearson
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For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty.
— Unknown Author
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Regret does not serve but to bring forth the unalterable wraiths of the past into the future so as to cloud what is the now.…
— Unknown Author
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Its so much more than that. Were talking about a love that will endure all the tests of time. Patient, unalterable, a fortress against the…
— Nancy Fenn
Who Wrote These Unalterable Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 61 Unalterable Quotes, led by these top contributors: